{"id":53176,"date":"2025-08-08T15:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53176\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:23:05","slug":"knights-press-conference-dane-gagai-what-did-he-say-panthers-defeat-knights-adam-obrien-will-he-be-sacked-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53176\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights press conference, Dane Gagai, what did he say, Panthers defeat Knights, Adam O\u2019Brien, will he be sacked, rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knights skipper Dane Gagai lamented the lack of cohesion from his side in the heavy loss to Penrith<\/a>, believing there were too many \u201cindividuals\u201d on the park.<\/p>\n

Their task was always going to be tough against the red-hot Panthers, but to amplify the difficulty of the assignment, Newcastle missed the jump by allowing two early tries.<\/p>\n

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From there, the Knights fell into a 32-0 hole and barring two second half tries, failed to provide much of a challenge for the Panthers.<\/p>\n

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Gagai was seen post-game addressing his beaten side, with a reporter asking the Knights captain about the full time meeting. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just around that performance, even though we\u2019ve been beaten in the past, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve been beaten like that,\u201d an honest Gagai conceded in the post-game press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think, myself included, a few of us struggled to get into the game and get that connections.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have a bunch of individuals out there, it\u2019s pretty hard to win. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s too many people making errors, missing tackles and giving away penalties it\u2019s always going to be hard to win so we just needed to come together as a group so that\u2019s what that was. Just sticking together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The loss piles the pressure on coach Adam O\u2019Brien, who is fighting to save his Knights career.<\/p>\n

The club is in a precarious position, only two points off the bottom of the table and in contention for an unwanted wooden spoon.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien admitted the Knights were outplayed and said it\u2019s best to move on from it with a trip to Townsville on the docket next week. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe got some lessons from a pretty clinical footy team. They made us pay,\u201d O\u2019Brien said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t feel sorry for ourselves for too long.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knights skipper Dane Gagai lamented the lack of cohesion from his side in the heavy loss to Penrith,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7189,64,63,44364,4424,763,44363,44360,44362,7495,668,85,44361],"class_list":{"0":"post-53176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-adam-obrien","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-clinical-footy-team","12":"tag-dane-gagai","13":"tag-fox-league","14":"tag-heavy-loss","15":"tag-knights-press-conference","16":"tag-knights-skipper","17":"tag-post-game-press-conference","18":"tag-press-conference","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-time-meeting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}